Drug poison

But he should start looking at Britain’s drug crisis sooner rather than later. It is clear that our current laws and programmes are not working.

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Home Secretary Sajid Javid needs to tackle the UK’s drugs crisis sooner rather than later

It’s not just that we have more drug deaths per head than other major European countries.

All you need to do to know that there is something seriously wrong is walk around parts of our city centres or our coastal towns and see addicts — each one a son or daughter, a brother or sister — slipping towards an early grave.

The answer may well be tougher sentences for pushers — but treatment, rather than prosecution, for chronic users. And we definitely need an answer to the “county lines” drug trade.

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